different between incense vs acerra

English

Etymology

From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incend? (“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Cognate with Spanish encender and incienso.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ?n's?ns, IPA^(key): /??ns?ns/
• Verb:
  • enPR: ?ns?ns', IPA^(key): /?n?s?ns/

Noun

incense (countable and uncountable, plural incenses)

1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
2. (figuratively) Homage; adulation.

Hyponyms

• joss stick, incense stick

Derived terms

• incense boat
• incense cedar

Related terms

• frankincense

Translations

Verb

incense (third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)

1. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

2. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
3. (transitive) To offer incense to.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
   • 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent

     Incensed with wanton sweetes.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman, self-styled noble, be incensed, — foolishly fumigated with incense, in Church; as the wont has been.

5. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

Translations

Anagrams

• Nicenes

Latin

Participle

inc?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of inc?nsus

References

• incense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• incense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• incense in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• incense in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Latin acerra

Noun

acerra (plural acerras or acerrae)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a small box for holding incense.
2. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a small sacrificial altar.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

acerra f (plural acerre)

1. acerra (all senses)

Anagrams

• arreca

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ker.ra/, [ä?k?r?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?t??er.ra/, [??t???r??]

Noun

acerra f (genitive acerrae); first declension

1. A small box in which was kept the incense used in sacrifices

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• acerra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acerra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette